Industrial engineering was established in Spain in 1850. Despite the initial difficulties, the
profession found its role in the process of the industrialization of Spain. The industrial engineers
were the first free professionals in the world of engineerin
g, given that there was not a State Corps
linked to them. In this sense, there are some similarities between the Spanish industrial engineers
and the French
Centraliens
. Moreover, the educational system developed in Spain in the
nineteenth century gave lit
tle autonomy to the engineering schools, and this was a major
difference from the French ones

We provide a tour of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, following four routes through the city and one elsewhere in the city and beyond, focusing on sites of importance in physics. Route 1 covers the Old Town, its Gothic Quarter, Plaça del Rei, Plaça de Sant Jaume, and Jewish Quarter. Route 2 identifies sites on and close to La Rambla, the main promenade in the city. Route 3 goes from the medieval shipyards to the Board of Commerce to Citadel Park. Route 4 concentrates on the Extension (Eixample) and covers the restored University, the Industrial University, and the new campus of the University of Barcelona. Elsewhere in the city and beyond are the Fabra Observatory; the Plaça de les Glòries with its large steel sculpture depicting the meridian arc from Dunkirk to Barcelona; Montjuïc, the site of the National Art Museum of Catalonia; and the National Museum of Science and Technology in Terrassa.

We provide a tour of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, following four routes through the city and
one elsewhere in the city and beyond, focusing on sites of importance in physics. Route 1 covers
the Old Town, its Gothic Quarter,
Plac
̧a del Rei
,
Plac
̧a de Sant Jaume
, and Jewish Quarter.
Route 2 identifies sites on and close to
La Rambla
, the main promenade in the city. Route 3
goes from the medieval shipyards to the Board of Commerce to Citadel Park. Route 4 con-
centrates on the Extension (
Eixample
) and covers the restored University, the Industrial
University, and the new campus of the University of Barcelona. Elsewhere in the city and
beyond are the Fabra Observatory; the
Plac
̧a de les Glo
`
ries
with its large steel sculpture
depicting the meridian arc from Dunkirk to Barcelona;
Montjuı
̈
c,
the site of the National Art
Museum of Catalonia; and the National Museum of Science and Technology in Terrassa

Massa Esteve, Maria Rosa; Roca Rosell, Antoni-maria ClaretInternational Conference of the European Society for the History of Sciencep. 101Presentation's date: 2012-11Presentation of work at congresses